Bug#5268: cron dies nightly
> > Yup. It has totally stopped. I tried adding to my crontab file and none
> > of the commands got run until I stopped and restarted cron.
>
> Check the permissions of crontab - should 4755.
callandor:~/build/coordinator> ps -ax | grep cron
6395 ? 2.57s /usr/sbin/cron
15671 p1 0.05s grep cron
callandor:~/build/coordinator> ps -axl 6395
FLAGS UID PID PPID PRI NI VSZ RSS WCHAN STAT TT TIME COMMAND
140 0 6395 1 0 0 844 120 sigsuspend S ? 2.57s /usr/sbin/cron
callandor:~/build/coordinator> crontab -e
crontab: installing new crontab
callandor:~/build/coordinator> ps -axl 6395
FLAGS UID PID PPID PRI NI VSZ RSS WCHAN STAT TT TIME COMMAND
No processes available.
callandor:~/build/coordinator> ll /etc/crontab
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 506 Aug 30 02:33 /etc/crontab
callandor:~/build/coordinator> ll /usr/bin/crontab
-rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 21184 Aug 11 19:19 /usr/bin/crontab*
callandor:/var/tmp# ll /var/spool/cron/crontabs
total 4
-rw------- 1 root verisim 596 Nov 7 09:46 bcwhite
-rw------- 1 root root 470 Jul 20 15:21 mail
-rw------- 1 root root 401 May 6 1996 root
-rw------- 1 root root 242 Apr 8 1996 verisim
> Do an strace on cron while you're running crontab. See if it reads
> the file in on the next minute.
I'll do that next time it dies.
Brian
( bcwhite@verisim.com )
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